Ghana has signed a Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) with Ireland to eliminate the incidence where incomes from both countries are taxed twice.
The Agreement, the first that Ireland has concluded with a West African country, was signed by Ireland’s Ambassador to ... Read More

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partners met to celebrate the transformation of private maternity homes in Ghana. Midwives, Government of Ghana representatives, USAID staff, and partners gathered in Accra for the occasion.
The event included presentations, ... Read More

Mr Trump saluted troops marching in Paris in July - reportedly the inspiration for his plans
US President Donald Trump has asked the Pentagon to organise a large military parade in the nation's capital.
The president made the request of top ... Read More

Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake
The UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth, Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake will pay a working visit to Ghana on Wednesday February 7 as part of her five country African tour.
According to statement by the UNFPA and copied to the GNA, ... Read More

Joseph Kabila
President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Joseph Kabila will not contest in elections when they are next held, the information minister Lambert Mende has told the Voice of America channel.
According to him, Kabila intends to ... Read More

Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel on Sunday began warning thousands of African migrants that they must leave by the end of March, officials said, under a plan that could see them jailed if they refuse.
Immigration authority spokeswoman Sabine Haddad told AFP that ... Read More

Melinda Tabler-Stone - U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the Ghana Health Service; the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA); Samsung; and Good Neighbors (a Korean NGO) are digitizing healthcare in rural and ... Read More

A man gets medical help from rescue workers after clashes in Calais, northern France
At least five migrants have been shot in the French port city of Calais, after a mass brawl between Afghans and Eritreans.
Four Eritrean youths aged 16-18 ... Read More

Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), Africa’s largest peacebuilding organisation, has called on the African Union (AU) to re-engage Kenya’s two leaders as part of efforts to resolve the unfolding political crises in that ... Read More

Raila Odinga says he wants to create "a proper democracy" in Kenya
The Kenyan government has declared the main opposition National Super Alliance’s offshoot, National Resistance Movement (NRM) as an illegal entity.
According to a special gazette notice issued today under ... Read More